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Ame ni mo makezu (I Won’t Be Beaten By The Rain) is the best-known work of Kenji Miyazawa. It was discovered after his death in a notebook he carried with him at all times. The poem is beautiful in its simplicity and forces one to reconsider what isMoreAme ni mo makezu (I Won’t Be Beaten By The Rain) is the best-known work of Kenji Miyazawa. It was discovered after his death in a notebook he carried with him at all times. The poem is beautiful in its simplicity and forces one to reconsider what is truly important in ones life.About the AuthorKenji Miyazawa is one of Japan’s best known and well-loved writers and poets. He was born in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1896. Although the eldest son of a wealthy pawnbroker and landowner, Kenji was a deeply spiritual person who led a frugal life, and when he wasn’t writing, volunteered a great deal of his time teaching farmers how to improve their crop yields, or organizing concerts for classical music in his local village. He was a prolific writer who completed hundreds of works, but only a small collection of those were published during his lifetime, his reputation as one of Japan’s greatest storytellers only coming after his death (1933 - aged 37). Ame ni mo makezu by Kenji Miyazawa
